Marty Robbins

Marty Robbins fascinates me because he refused to be just one thing. Most singers would be content with a four-decade country career, a Grammy, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Robbins also strapped himself into stock cars and raced competitively. That restlessness shows up in his music too, where his story songs play like miniature Westerns, complete with characters, gunfights, and consequences. To me he represents a vanished breed of entertainer: a craftsman who treated a three-minute song as a stage for full-blown drama. His voice was warm, his pen was sharp, and his nerve, on track and on record, was remarkable.

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Name (English)

Marty Robbins

Name (Japanese)

マーティ・ロビンス

Reading

まーてぃ・ろびんす

Born

September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982

Origin

Glendale, Arizona, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / composer / racing automobile driver / singer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

High school

Glendale High School

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Grammy Awards

• Official sitehttp://www.martyrobbins.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty%20Robbins
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919565

Tags

• Arizona
• singer-songwriter
• composer
• racing automobile driver

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.